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by momokoko 7y ago
Hi Dan, my apologies for that. I wasn't trying to specifically single out that account. I've seen a strong push for MS products since VS Code, and it is impossible to be an accident. My post was made out of curiosity as opposed to
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by momokoko 7y ago
Unless that rescue has rabies.
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In the business, customer, end-user sense, in many situations, you are much better off to have a transaction fail with an error as opposed to finally successfully happening after 2 hours once a service disruption is cleared. Every problem i
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There is an open source or portable Launch Configuration? VPC? Security Group? IAM? etc etc?
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But all what you described will port, with some adjustments, to a different provider for another decade. This is all to host on one specific host. The money spent on planning and architecture is a one time cost and it is very high. Not to m
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by momokoko 7y ago
The reason for the original idea was because if YC invested in a later round, or chose not to, that was a huge signal to the other investors. Most companies at the time could not raise later rounds if they were not promising. But, since YC
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by momokoko 7y ago
Companies in markets at scale are very much 80/20. That's one of the reasons government services are so expensive. If these services were fair to everyone, they would be orders of magnitude more expensive.
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Because the graph was probably made in Powerpoint or Illustrator.
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The over capacity modeling is incredibly difficult to do. Please stop trying to spread additional gloom and doom about a part of this future most people have no control over. There are already novel ideas to address that issue being put int
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by momokoko 7y ago
So, upterm[0] / hyper-autocomplete[1]? [0] https://github.com/railsware/upterm [1] https://github.com/Inlustra/hyper-autocomplete
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by momokoko 7y ago
There is a comment that replied to mine that is now dead but is fairy accurate for me as I do not have a college degree. I’ve been able to some what transition to a technician/mechanic path but I make barely enough to support myself wi
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by momokoko 7y ago
I am in exactly the same boat. Could not have said it better myself.
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by momokoko 7y ago
8tracks was amazing. Unfortunately, after they attempted the paid subscription model I moved to a paid subscription service that also included play on demand of songs and albums. I had always hoped that 8tracks could have been purchased by
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There is a massive amount of demand for low skilled labor. But due to the US strong dollar policy, that labor will never be available to US residents.
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The slang term is “useful idiots” if you are looking for something to look up and read about.
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by momokoko 7y ago
This is very insightful. Thank you. One insight you may not be considering is that the profile of a CS graduate has changed significantly. A tech job is now full of prestige and social status. Even more so if that tech job is at a big brand
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The point is that in a high wage country it is actually more difficult to outsource, or h-1b a "blue collar" job than a software job. Therefore it will always have significantly less competition and downward pressure on income. I
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by momokoko 7y ago
Very interesting in that SuperShuttle was sold to a PE firm specializing in distressed assets in September. This bankruptcy was likely already a given at that time.
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The apology is basically the modern version of that corporate statement.
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Correct, the US is unique in developed nations in that it does not have much of a safety net so most people tend to fall much harder and faster than they would in another high wealth country.
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by momokoko 7y ago
The best advice one can possibly give is to start attending a regularly scheduled event that involves a lot of people. Whether that is season tickets to a sporting event, attending church, a weekly tech meetup, volunteering on a regular sch
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by momokoko 7y ago
We've seen that suicide rates in very poor countries tend to be quite a bit lower. This leads some, my self included, to hypothesize that it is the cliff that one can fall off of in society that causes more of these issues. In the US,
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by momokoko 7y ago
> deserve better So less features and slower performance to account for the hypothetical case where someone tries to edit their user account from 50 devices at once over and over again? > But a fairly standard web app might serve 1
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by momokoko 7y ago
Because if you are writing a fairly standard web app, you don't need this. There isn't the scale to make it important. Software is a very large field, with a wide variety of use cases. Obviously an exchange trading platform is goi
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If someone on my team was writing a web app and spending time meddling around with transactions outside of whatever abstraction layer we were using on top of the DB without an incredibly good reason, we'd definitely be having a coachin
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> If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
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Scraping LinkedIn is so common you can usually hire people with years of experience in it. It is not as complicated as you might think. There are at minimum hundreds of companies that sell LinkedIn data they have scraped.
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by momokoko 7y ago
If those companies didn't need people on-site, the jobs would, and typically do, go overseas to lower-wage countries. There are tons of companies using remote work. It's called outsourcing.
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Because it's been done to death. It adds nothing new, and has nothing to do with this specific conversation. There is a time and a place for everything. This is not the place in my and many other's opinion.
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> AI systems mis-analyzing some data and locking people out from education, work, credit and health opportunities. College admissions? Resume screens? Mortgage applications? We already have that at scale. There wouldn't be so much

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